Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
OPRIG OF HEARTS EASE.
Our Burdens Only Half as Hard to
Garry if We can Find Some One
TO Share Them With Us.
When the Apostles Got Into Trouble
They Always Went and Told Jesus
the First Thing.
All the wisdom of the Ages Has Found
No Better SOIRce for Broken Heart
or q Wounded Spirit,
Special to the Gazette.

ernacle this morning the Rev. T. De Witt
Talmsge, D. D., gave notice of the annual
pilgrimage of his congregation, which
this year will be to Martha's Vineyard,
Mass. II will begin July l and end July
Z. DR.. Talmage will preach at Martha's
Vineyard on July and deliver an Grafton
on the Atm. Congregational singing at
the Tabernacle is led By a cornet and
organ. A boy choir chants twice during
the service. The hymn sung by the con-
gregation this morning begins:
Sun of nv soul. thou Saviour dear,
1t is not night If Thou be near.
DR.. Talmage's text was: "And His dis
ciples went and told Jesus" Matthew
XIV, u. He said:
An outrageous ASSASSINATION had Just
taken place. To appease q revengeful
woman. King Herod ordered the death of
that noble, self sacrificing Christian, j ohm
the Baptist The group of the disciples
were thrown into grief and dismay. They
felt themselves utterly defenseless. There
WAS no authority to which they could
appeal, and yet grief must always find
expression. II there be no human ear to
near it, then the agonized soul will CRY
the waters. But there was an ear that
was willing TO listen. There is tender
pathOs and at the same lime most ad-
mirabIe picture in the words of my text
"TheY went and told Jesus" He could
understand all their grief, and He imme-
diately sOothed 1t. Our burdens are not
more than half so heavy to carry if an
other is thrust under
THE OTHER END OF THEM.
Here We find Christ, His brow Swallowed
with grief, standing amid the group of
disciples, who, with tears, and violent
gesticulations, and wringing of hands,
and oUtcrY of bereavement, ere express
ing their woe. Raphael, with his skiIlfuI
brush putting upon the wall of a palace
some scene OF sacred story, gave not so
skillful stroke as when the plain hand
Of the evangelist writes: FThey went
and told Jesus"
The old Goths and VRndals once came
down upon Italy from the north of Eu-
rope, ano they upset the gardens, and
they broke down the affairs, and swept
sway everything that was good and
beautiful. So there is ever and anon in
the history of all the sons and daughters
Of our race an incursion of oUgh-handed
troubles that come to plumber and ran
sack and put to the torch all that men
highly prize. There is nc cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as to allow US
Ss2lter, and the foot of feetest c0urser
cEnnot bear Us beyond the quick pursuit.
The arrows they put to the string fly with
Unerring dart, until we fall pierced and
stunned.
feel that / bring to you most ap-
propriate message. l mean to bind up
all your griefs into bundle and set them
on fire with spark from Gods altar.
The same prescription that cured the
sorrow Of the disciples will cure all your
Beart-aches. have read that when God
frey and his army marched out to cap
ture Jerusalem, as they came over the
hills, at the first fash of the pinnacIes of
that beautiful city, the army that had
marched in silence lifted a shout that
made the earth trembie. o, you soldiers
Of Jesus Christ, marching on towards
heaven, would that to-day, by some
CLEAN from the palace of Gods mercy and
Gods strength, you might be lifted into
great rejoicing, and that before this ser
vice is ended you might raise
ONE GLAD HOsANNA
to the Lord,
In the first place l commend the beha-
iOr of these disciples to all those in this
audience who are sinful and unpardoned.
There comes time in almost every mans
history VIXEN he feels from some source
that he has an erring nature. The thought
may not have such heft as to fell him. It
may be only like the fash in an evening
aloud Just after hot summers day. One
mar to get rid of that impression will go
TO prayer, another man will stimulate
himself by ardent spirits and another man
VIII dive deeper into secularities. But
sometimes a man cannot get rid of these
Impressions; the fact is, when man finds
out that his eternity is poised upon per-
feet uncertainty and that the next moment
mis- foot may slip he must do something
violent to make himself forget WheIe he
stands or else fly for refuge.
If there are any here who have resolved
thst they would rather die of this awful
cancer OF sin than to nave the heaV-
emily surgeon cut it out let me say, my
dear brother; you mingle for yourself
a bitter cup. You fly IN the face of your
everlasting interests. You crouch under
q yoke and you bite the dust, when, this
moment, you might rise up a crowned
conquerer. Driven and perpIexed and
harassed as you have been by sin, 90 and
tell Jesus. To relax the grip of death
from your soul, aud plant your un-
shackled feet upon the golden throne,
Christ let the tortures of the bloody
mount transfx him. With the beam of
His own cross He will break down
THE DOOR OF YOUR DUNGEON.
From the thorns of his own crown He
VIII pick enough gems to make your
brow blaze with eternal victory. In
every tear on his wet cheek; in every
gash of His side; in every long, blacken-
ing mark of laceration from shoulder to
shoulder; in the rave-shattering, heaven
StOrming death groan, hear Him say:
Him that cometh unto Me, l will in no
wise cast out"
"Oh," but you say, "instead of curing
my wound you want to make another !
wound, namely, that of conviction" |
Have you never known a surgeon to come |
and find chronic disease, and then with |
sharp caustic burn it all out? So the !
grace of God comes to the old sore of |
sin. 1t has long been ranking there, but !
by Divine grace 1t is burned out through !
these fires of conviction, "the flesh com
ing again as the flesh of little child;n |
where sin abounded, grace much more |
abOundpth - With the tan thOusopd nm